The Man Who Was Clever

"The Man Who Was Clever" is the first of three interconnected novellas written by Leslie Charteris and included in the second Saint book Enter the Saint published in 1930. It had previously been published in the magazine Thriller as "The Five Kings".

Plot
Simon Templar seeks to bring a drug smuggler to justice. In this story, Templar is shown in the process of establishing his reputation as a crime buster working with a team of mysterious individuals (akin to Robin Hood's Merry Men). Patricia Holm, Templar's love interest and fellow adventurer from the first book Meet the Tiger, appears briefly in a cameo.